• Ammonium Muriaticum is Sal Ammoniac (Ammonium Chloride).

• Ammonium Muriaticum produces a state of prostration bordering on a typhoid state.

• Ammonium Muriaticum is suited to fat and sluggish patients with respiratory troubles and hepatic complaints.

• All mucous secretions are increased and retained.

• Ammonium Muriaticum has a tendency to irregular circulation; blood seems to be in constant turmoil.

• Many symptoms are accompanied by cough, profuse, glairy secretions.

• Periods of aggravation are peculiarly divided by bodily region: Head and chest symptoms worse mornings; abdominal symptoms worse afternoons; limb pains, skin, and febrile symptoms worse evenings.

• Ammonium Muriaticum has a "Boiling" sensation internally.

• Ammonium Muriaticum has a marked tendency to the formation of fissures and cracks in skin, especially around the anus and fingertips.

• The patient experiences great weakness and exhaustion.

• General emaciation, but often with a relatively plump abdomen.

• Glandular swellings occur, especially cervical and axillary glands.

• Catarrhal affections manifest with acrid, watery discharges.

• Complaints originate or are aggravated by exposure to cold, damp weather.

• The patient has an aversion to open air.

• Sensations of dryness occur in mucous membranes.

• Burning pains are felt, especially in internal organs.

• Ammonium Muriaticum acts deeply on mucous membranes and glandular structures.

• Symptoms are often associated with hepatic disturbances.

• Ammonium Muriaticum is marked for its action on the digestive system.

• Left-sided complaints are common.

• Sensitiveness to cold and damp.

• A tendency to sciatica.

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• The patient is irritable and easily angered.

• The patient is depressed and sad, especially in the morning.

• The patient is averse to company; desires to be alone.

• The patient is forgetful and has difficulty concentrating.

• The patient is anxious about the future.

• The patient is restless and fidgety.

• The patient is easily offended.

• The patient experiences melancholy, with weeping tendencies.

• The patient has indifference to loved ones.

• The patient experiences dullness of mind.

• The patient experiences low spirits, particularly in the morning.

• The patient experiences mental confusion.

• The patient has difficulty thinking clearly.

• The patient is oversensitive; easily vexed.

• The patient experiences despondency about health.

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• Acts more on the left side than Ammonium carbonicum.

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• Heaviness and pressure in the forehead.

• The scalp is sensitive to touch.

• The patient experiences vertigo with nausea.

• The patient experiences dull, heavy headaches.

• The head feels too large.

• The patient experiences tearing pains in the head.

• Photophobia.

• Dim vision.

• Lachrymation, especially in open air.

• The eyes feel dry and gritty.

• Styes appear on the eyelids.

• Hardness of hearing.

• Otitis occurs with watery discharge.

• Noises in the ears like rushing water are heard.

• Coryza with profuse, watery, acrid discharge, excoriating the upper lip occurs.

• Obstruction of the nose.

• Loss of smell.

• The nostrils feel raw and sore.

• Frequent sneezing.

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• Swelling of the nose, and painful sensibility to the touch, with pain of ulceration and bloody crusts in the nostrils.

• Sneezing, with shooting in the nape of the neck, and as far as the shoulders, and crawling in the throat.

• Coryza, with stoppage of the nose and loss of smell.

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• Hoarseness.

• Dryness of the throat.

• Accumulation of mucus in the throat.

• The throat feels constricted.

• Difficult swallowing.

• Cough is dry, hacking, and worse in the morning, with expectoration of profuse, glairy mucus.

• Dyspnea, shortness of breath.

• Rattling occurs in the chest.

• Bronchitis occurs.

• Asthma occurs.

• Oppression of chest.

• Cough is aggravated by cold air.

• Sensation of constriction occurs in the chest.

• Difficult expectoration.

• Burning in the chest.

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• Palpitations occur, especially on exertion.

• The pulse is irregular.

• Angina pectoris occurs.

• Weakness and trembling of the heart.

• Oppression of the chest.

• Sour eructations occur.

• Nausea and vomiting occur.

• Craving for acids.

• Aversion to meat.

• Acidity of the stomach.

• Burning in the stomach.

• Flatulence and bloating occurs.

• Colic occurs.

• Rumbling occurs in the bowels.

• Liver affections occur.

• Pain occurs in the liver region.

• Enlargement of the liver occurs.

• Hardness is felt in the abdomen.

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• Hemorrhoids occur, with fissures and burning pains.

• Burning and itching of the anus occurs.

• Diarrhea occurs.

• Stools are passed with great difficulty.

• Prolapsus of the rectum occurs.

• Aching occurs in the rectum.

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• Frequent urination occurs, especially at night.

• Incontinence of urine occurs.

• Burning occurs during urination.

• Scanty urine occurs.

• Dark-colored urine occurs.

• Sediment appears in the urine.

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• Evacuation of urine increased, principally in the night.

• Reddish, clear urine, without sediment.

• Diminished secretion of urine.

• Slow flow of urine; more abundant during stool.

• Frequent urination, esp. towards morning.

• Sediment, like clay.

• Urine smells strongly of ammonia; sometimes musty odour.

• Increased sexual desire occurs.

• Emissions occur.

• Prostatitis occurs.

• Swelling of the prostate occurs.

• Pain occurs in the testicles.

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• Shootings and throbbings in the spermatic cord.

• Frequent erections.

• Leucorrhea occurs, profuse, watery, and excoriating.

• Menses are too early and profuse.

• Painful menstruation occurs.

• Metritis occurs.

• Uterine prolapse occurs.

• Bearing-down pains occur.

• Vaginal burning occurs.

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• Menses too early and too copious, with pain in the abdomen, loins, and pains, compressive or drawing, in the back; continuing during the night, when the menstrual discharge is more profuse.

• During the menses, vomiting and diarrhœa, drawing in the feet, or discharge of blood on going to stool.

• Leucorrhœa, with inflation of the belly; or like the white of an egg, preceded by pinchings round the navel; or slimy and brown, discharged after making water.

• Stiffness of the back occurs.

• Weakness occurs in the back.

• Sciatic pains extend down the leg.

• Pains occur in the limbs, especially in the evening.

• Stiffness of the joints occurs.

• Swelling of the feet and ankles occurs.

• Cracking occurs in joints.

• Sciatica occurs.

• Cold extremities occur.

• Fissures occur on fingertips.

• Numbness occurs in the limbs.

• Gouty pains occur.

• Cramps occur in the legs.

• Heaviness and weariness occur in the limbs.

• Weakness occurs in the knees.

• Fissures and cracks occur, especially on fingertips and around anus.

• Itching and burning eruptions occur.

• Eczema occurs.

• Urticaria occurs.

• Boils occur.

• The skin is sensitive to touch.

• Sleeplessness occurs.

• Dreams are vivid and disturbing.

• Dreams of business and anxiety occur.

• The patient is sleepy during the day; restless at night.

• Difficult to fall asleep.

• The patient wakes up unrefreshed.

• Compare: Calcarea carbonica, Senega, Causticum, Hepar Sulphuris, Natrum muriaticum, Sepia.

• Antidotes: Camphor.

• Ammonium Muriaticum is useful in cases of chronic catarrh, hepatic disorders, sciatica, constipation, and hemorrhoids.

• Ammonium Muriaticum is often indicated after abuse of allopathic medicines, particularly expectorants.

• Consider Ammonium Muriaticum in cases of chronic bronchitis and asthma.

• Ammonium Muriaticum is helpful for cracks and fissures, particularly around the anus.

• Ammonium Muriaticum is useful in treating glandular affections.

• Acts upon the forehead significantly.

• Causes ulceration and ulcerative pains.

• Produces dislocation-like pains.

• Sensation of tension as if tendons are contracted.

• Paralytic weakness.

• Increased mucous secretions generally.

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• Pains as from ulceration in different parts of the body.

• Tension in the joints, as by contraction of the tendons.

• Symptoms often worsen at night and between 2-4 AM.

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• , as from vexation or cares, with inclination to weep.

• Full of grief, but unable to weep.

• Morose, apathetic humor, with repugnance to conversation.

• Irritability and disposition to be angry.

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• Fear of darkness.

• Fullness in head, weight in forehead, especially in the morning on rising.

• Pressure in the forehead towards the root of the nose, with a sensation as if the brain were bruised.

• Acute, semi-lateral sensation of pulling in the head and face.

• Congestion of blood in the head, with internal heat.

• Itching in the scalp, which forces to scratch constantly.

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• Burning in the eyes, and in the corners of the eyes, in the evening, in twilight, or in the morning, with photophobia.

• Palpitation in the eyelids.

• Confused sight, as from a mist.

• Fluttering spots and points before the eyes, during the day and in the evening by candlelight.

• Yellow spots before the eyes on looking steadfastly at any object, while sewing.

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• Shooting in the ears from the inside outwards, especially in the open air.

• Drawing and piercing sensation in the ears.

• Eruption in the ears, with running from the ears.

• Hardness of hearing.

• Tingling and buzzing before the ears.

• Affection of the right ear commencing in the throat, as if the throat and the ear were connected.

• Loss of smell.

• Acute sensation of tearing, violent in the zygomatic bones.

• Burning heat in the face in the room.

• Eruptions in the face.

• Ulcerations in the corners of the mouth, and in the upper lip.

• Lips shining, as from grease.

• Lips dry, wrinkled, chapped, and excoriated with burning heat, with blotches of the skin peeling off.

• Face burns with an eruption which requires cold applications for relief.

• Tensive pain in the articulation of the lower jaw on chewing, and on opening the mouth.

• Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, with throbbing pain.

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• Acute sensation of tearing in the teeth.

• Swelling of the gums, with shooting pain.

• Burning blisters on the point of the tongue.

• Shooting pain in the throat on swallowing.

• Tenacious mucus in the throat, chiefly in the morning.

• Swelling of tonsils so he can scarcely swallow after taking cold.

• Ulceration in corners of mouth.

• Swelling of tonsils so he can scarcely swallow after taking cold.

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• Hoarseness, with sensation of burning in the larynx.

• Violent cough, chiefly in the evening and at night, when lying on the back.

• Frequent hawking, with expectoration of mucus.

• Dry cough in the morning (with tickling of the throat), with expectoration of whitish and thick matter.

• Cough aggravated after a meal, as well as after a cold drink, and when lying with the head low.

• Cough on breathing deeply, esp. when lying on the right side.

• When coughing, shootings in the chest and in the hypochondria.

• Spitting of blood, preceded by tickling in the throat.

• When breathing, stitches in the shoulder-blades.

• Coryza, acrid, watery, scalding hot; with cold feeling between shoulders.

• Cough and asthmatic symptoms, worse evening and night, and in open air.

• Asthmatic state on moving the arms up and down.

• Weight and oppression of the chest, with difficulty of breathing, chiefly in the open air, or at night.

• Pressure and shootings in the chest.

• Pressure, heaviness, and stitches in the chest, sensation as if a swallowed morsel had lodged in the chest.

• Throbbing in the chest when standing.

• Burning in small spots in the chest, lungs feel sore and as if paralysed.

• Tension and pain, as from fatigue, in the exterior of the chest.

• Eruption and red spots, burning and itching on the chest.

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• Bitter taste in the mouth, chiefly in the morning, with bitter eructations and anxiety.

• Absence of hunger and of appetite.

• Much thirst, chiefly in the evening.

• After every meal, nausea, flow of water from the mouth, with shuddering, diarrhœa with colic and pains in the limbs, and sometimes with throbbing in the chest, heat in the face, and restlessness.

• Sensation in stomach as if fasting, yet feels full.

• Worse after breakfast.

• Eructations, mostly bitter or imperfect.

• Regurgitation of what has been taken, or of a bitter and acid water.

• Frequent violent hiccough, often with shootings in the chest.

• Water-brash.

• Drawing or gnawing pains in the stomach, as if from worms.

• Sensation of burning in the stomach and in the precordial region.

• Shooting pains in the region of the spleen, chiefly in the morning on waking, with dyspnœa, which causes the assumption of an erect position.

• Intermittent pains in both hypochondria.

• Stitches and burning in liver region.

• Stitches in spleen, worse sitting.

• Inflation of the abdomen.

• Pinching in the abdomen.

• Tension and swelling in the groins.

• Sensation of swelling and pain, as of ulceration in the groins, on their being touched.

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• Hard stool covered with mucus.

• Constipation.

• Hard stools, or frequent and soft.

• Hard, crumbly stool, or covered with glairy mucus.

• Diarrhœa with pain, as if caused by excoriation, or by a bruise in the belly.

• Loose, slimy, greenish stools.

• Before the stool, pain in the belly round the navel.

• Discharge of blood with the stool.

• During stool, stitches in anus.

• Pustules form beside the anus, with itching and soreness.

• Stool often varies in colour at every evacuation, no two being alike.

• Pain, as from excoriation in the rectum when sitting; during and after the expulsion of stool, severe burning and smarting.

• Pain in the perinæum when walking.

• Hæmorrhoids: burning, stinging, smarting, soreness.

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• Acute drawings in the sides of the neck and in the collar-bone.

• A fatty swelling on nape of neck, extending from ear to ear.

• Stiffness of the neck, with pain on moving it, from the nape of the neck to the shoulders.

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• Coldness in the back, especially between the shoulders (which nothing warms).

• Pain in small of back as if beaten and shattered.

• Pain in coccyx, when sitting, worse when sleeping.

• Pains, as from fatigue in the loins, principally at night, when lying down, when walking, or after stooping.

• Painful stiffness in the loins, which forces one to stoop in walking.

• Shootings in the shoulder-blades, esp. on breathing.

• Heavy and stiff, as if paralyzed arms.

• Tearing in bone of left upper arm, and afterwards in right thigh from above downwards.

• During the night, acute tearing in the arms, as if it were in the bones.

• Swelling and hardness of the axillary glands.

• Right arm is heavy and stiff.

• Tearing in the shoulders.

• Swelling of the wrists with tearing pain.

• Blisters on the wrists, which form crusts.

• Pain, as from dislocation, in the wrist.

• Sudden jerks, tearings, or shootings, throbbing, tingling and pain as from ulceration at the tips of the fingers.

• Exfoliation of the skin between the fingers (and on wrists).

• Tension in the hips and the hams.

• Shootings, pain of dislocation (left hip is painful, as if the tendons were too short, causing limping), and pulling in the hip.

• When sitting, gnawing pain in the bone.

• Contraction of the tendons of the hams (the muscles under the knee feel too short when walking), and stiffness in the joint of the knee.

• At night, acute pulling in the legs, as if in the bone.

• Shooting pain in the calves of the legs, after having walked long.

• Legs dead and insensible.

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• Pain of ulceration and pulling in the heels.

• Cold feet, especially in the evening, in bed.

• Fetid sweat in the feet.

• Sudden jerks, pullings, or shootings, throbbing and tingling in the extremity of the toes.

• Ebullitions, with anxiety and weakness, as if paralyzed.

• Tension in the legs on lying.

• Tension in the joints, as from shortening of the muscles.

• Burning, stinging, throbbing, as from a boil.

• Sensation of soreness in different parts of the body.

• Very severe ulcerative pain in the heel, better by rubbing.

• Feet get very cold in the evening in bed.

• Better walking crooked, worse on walking erect.

• Neuralgic pains in stumps of amputated limbs.

• Large buttocks.

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• Itching and titillation, giving an impulse to scratch, followed by eruption of pimples.

• Miliary eruption.

• Vesicular eruptions which form scurf.

• Exfoliation of the skin in several places.

• Diurnal drowsiness, with indolence and dread of exertion.

• Early in the evening, inclination to sleep.

• Restlessness before midnight.

• Sleeplessness after midnight, from cutting pain in the abdomen, at two a.m.; or from sneezing; pain in small of back.

• Waking too early.

• Many dreams, anxious, terrific, or lascivious.

• At night, colicky pains, frequent sneezing, crawling in the throat, weight and pressure on the chest (nightmare?), violent suffering in the veins, and pains in the trunk and in the limbs, cold feet, heat in the head, shivering, and itching in the skin.

• Open air, evening, night, from 2-4 AM, sitting, walking erect, after breakfast.

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• Warm bath, walking crooked, rubbing the heel (ulcerative pain), open air (for dizziness and vertigo).

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• Clinical Indications: Anosmia, Bronchitis, Constipation, Coryza, Cough, Diarrhœa, Eye inflammation, Foot pains, Glandular enlargement, Hæmorrhoids, Liver affections, Melancholia, Menstrual disorders, Pneumonia, Sciatica, Scurvy, Spleen pains, Sprains, Stump neuralgia, Tonsillar swelling, Ulcers.

• Compare: Mag. mur., Nat. mur., Val. and Ac. mur. (pains in feet and heels); Rhus (sprains, < sitting); Seneg. (fat people); Sep., Sul.

• In "aversion to darkness" compare: Calc., Carb. an., stron., Val., Stram.

• Antidotes: Bitter almonds, Coffea, Nux v.

• All stages of fever without thirst.

• Absence of thirst in all stages of intermittent fever.

• Cold shivering, most frequently in the evening, about six o'clock; without thirst.

• Shivering after lying down in bed, evening, and as often as she wakes.

• Cold feeling between shoulders.

• Heat with thirst, and face bloated.

• Nocturnal sweat, after midnight.

• Sweat increased by every motion.